Hammurabi's Code

Who was Hammurabi? 

• Hammurabi was a God in Ancient Sumer
• Hammurabi was the King of Babylon
• Hammurabi was a warrior

What does the bolded phrase in the sentence mean :  The purpose of the laws was to unify and maintain order. 

• keep the peace
• punish people
• organize people

Hammurabi's Code was composed of how many laws?

• 282

• 272

• 292

• 262

• 252

Who did Hammurabi claim encouraged him to create the laws?

• The people of Babylon
• The Gods
• The Akkadians

What did Hammurabi do with the code of laws to make sure everyone knew of them?

• He had them carved on stele and placed in the temple
• He put the code in front of the government buildings
• He placed them at the entrance of Babylon

A doctor’s fee for curing a severe wound would be 10 silver coins for a property owner, five coins for a freedman and two coins for a slave.

• this means that all social classes were equal

• all social classes were not equal under the code

Hammurabi's Code ruled on

• marriage

• trade

• punishments

• all of these

• none of these

If a son has struck his father, they shall cut off the son's hand.

• If a father hits his son, they can cut off the father's hands.
• If a father and son get in a fight, they will both get their hands cut off.
• If a child hits his parents, the child will get his hand cut off.

If a man has destroyed the eye of a man of the gentleman's class (the upper class,) they shall destroy his eye.  If he has broken a gentleman's bone, they shall break his bone.  If a man has destroyed the eye of a common person or broken the bone of a common person, he shall pay with a piece of silver.  If a man has destroyed the eye of a gentleman's slave, he will have to pay the owner of the slave half of what they paid for the slave.

• If you hurt the upper class, your punishment is the same as what you did.  "Eye for an Eye"
  If you hurt a common person you pay for the damages.
  If you hurt a slave, you have to pay half the slave's price.
• If you hurt a gentleman, commoner or slave you will have your bone broken and have to pay with silver.
• If you hurt a gentleman, you need to pay for damages and if you hurt a commoner or slave, you go to jail.

If a gentleman strikes (hits) a gentleman in a flight and inflicts (causes) injury on him, the man shall swear, "I did not strike (hit) him deliberately" and he shall pay only the surgeon.
(Deliberately means it was done on purpose)

• If you hit someone in a fight and cause injury on accident, you will go to jail.
• If you hurt someone in a fight accidentally, you will only have to pay for the person's doctor (surgeon's) bill.
• If you get in a fight and accidentally hurt someone, you will need to go see a surgeon.